The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The Reykjanes peninsula in south-west Iceland trembled with an intense swarm of earthquakes on the afternoon of Friday November 10. Hundreds of quakes were detected on the regional networks of seismometers and several were strong enough to be felt in Reykjavik, 50 kilometres away.

NASA has stopped sending commands to its Mars missions for two weeks, but that doesn't mean the robotic explorers are taking a vacation.

Thousands of residents evacuated town of Grindavik over weekend after series of earthquakes as threat of volcano eruption still looms

HDD AFRs are down compared with last month, and Earth’s hottest summer has created a new monitoring category.

The European Space Agency, Airbus and Voyager Space have signed an agreement for the Starlab commercial space station, which will provide a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit.

A new show on "The Secret World of Elephants" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City dishes on the evolution and remarkable lives of these huge (and sometimes dwarf) pachyderms.

Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. How do animals adjust to these new, often extreme, conditions?

A new international report says the world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways

Saturn’s rings will become almost invisible from Earth in 2025. This is neither a surprise nor reason to panic. The rings will “reappear” soon thereafter.